nope

Example Sentences

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Ole Miss said nope and promoted defensive coordinator Keith Golding to the head coach job; Kiffin publicly expressed his disappointment that the school rejected his request.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

In its post, the company says it will let certain models of Claude nope out in “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.”

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025

And then you realize, nope there's a time and a place for everything and if you keep hustling, it will come to you.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2024

“Nope, nope, nope. It’s pretty big-time when you have an Iowa team playing, let alone somebody from our hometown.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2024

They go check things out rather than packing up their stuff, giving a big ol’ nope, and leaving.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer